Spider crater
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Spider is a meteor crater in Western Australia, Australia. It is located at S 16° 44' E 126° 5' (according to the EIDB, see link below).
It is 13 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be greater than 570 million years (Ediacaran at the earliest). The crater is exposed to the surface.
The crater has been heavily eroded and the signs of a meteor crater are not easily visible due to no remaining central uplift and no rim.
The name is derived from its shape from satellite images. Using | Google's "satellite" tool, the structure is reasonably evident (see link below) and would appear to have impacted on fairly flat-laying strata (around 5km north of the site is an escarpment above a river valley which exposes contrasts in the strata). The "spider" doesn't appear at all clearly on Google's imagery though.
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